Author: Susan Elizabeth BlackallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
A Stylistic Study of the Sagas of Sturla Þórðarson and Their Relationship to Some Other Thirteenth Century Icelandic Historical and Literary Sagas
Author: Susan Elizabeth BlackallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
A Stylistic Study of the Sagas of Sturla Pordarson and Their Relationship to Some Other Thirteenth Century Icelandic Historical and Literary Sagas
Author: S. E. BlackallKings' Sagas and Norwegian History
Author: Shami GhoshPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004209891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Surveying the past two decades of scholarship on the medieval historiography of Norway, this book provides a critical appraisal of the principal issues involved in the study of the primary sources and the key areas of scholarship and future research.
Sturlunga Saga: Shorter sagas of the Icelanders
Author: Julia H. McGrewPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN: 9780805733655
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Glossary of nicknames and names of weapons: volume 1, pages 449-455.
The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga
Author: Margaret Clunies RossPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139492640
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas and sagas of knights - are described and discussed in detail, and the world of medieval Icelanders is powerfully evoked. The first general study of the Old Norse-Icelandic saga to be written in English for some decades, the Introduction is based on up-to-date scholarship and engages with current debates in the field. With suggestions for further reading, detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a map of medieval Iceland, this book is aimed at students of medieval literature and assumes no prior knowledge of Scandinavian languages.
Sturla Þórðarson
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004342362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Sturla Þórðarson is one of only a handful of thirteenth-century Icelandic historians to be known by name, and he is certainly one of the most significant. A number of works may be traced directly to his literary-cultural circle, notably Landnámabók (The Book of Settlements), Íslendinga saga (The Saga of Icelanders) and Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar (The Saga of King Hákon). Moreover, it is thought that Sturla was involved in the production of the legal text known as Járnsíða, as well as annals and, possibly, some of the Íslendingasögur (Sagas of Icelanders). In addition to his role as author and compiler, Sturla Þórðarson was one of the most powerful men in Iceland. In 1262 Sturla visited the court of King Magnús Hákonarson ‘the Law-mender’ in Norway as a court poet. He later became the king’s liegeman, and it was for King Magnús that Sturla wrote the sagas of King Hákon and King Magnús. Sturla served as lawman of all Iceland in the period 1272-77, and then as lawman for the north and west of the country until 1282. He died on 30 July 1284. Contributors are Ann-Marie Long, Ármann Jakobsson, Auður Magnúsdóttir, Gísli Sigurðsson, Guðrún Ása Grímsdóttir, Guðrún Nordal, Gunnar Harðarson, Hans Jacob Orning, Helgi Þorláksson, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Lena Rohrbach, Patricia Pires Boulhosa, Philadelphia Ricketts, R.I. Moore, Randi Bjørshol Wærdahl, Roberta Frank, Sveinbjörn Rafnsson, Sverrir Jakobsson, Theodore M. Andersson, Úlfar Bragason and Verena Hoefig.
Dating the Sagas
Author: Else MundalPublisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 8763538997
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The Icelandic genre known as the Family Sagas, Sagas of Icelanders, or Sagas about early Icelanders consists of anonymous works, and the genre, as well as the individual sagas, are therefore difficult to date. This literature is also difficult to date since sagas are stories that were transformed both during oral and scribal transmission. The authors of the present book address methodological problems and discuss the dating of individual sagas and the genre itself. Focusing their attention on an important period in the history of Icelandic literature, the authors are particularly concerned with the several new written genres which developed in Iceland in the thirteenth century, of which the Sagas about early Icelanders is regarded as the most important. The articles gathered in this volume show that the dating of the beginning of this written genre and of individual sagas belonging to it is crucial to the understanding of the development of literary history in thirteenth-century Iceland.
Else Mundal is professor of Old Norse Philology at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen. She has published widely on Old Norse saga literature, Eddic and skaldic poetry, on Old Norse mythology, women in Old Norse society, as well as on the relationship between the oral and the written literature and the impact of Christianization on the Old Norse culture.
The Matter of the North
Author: Torfi H. TuliniusPublisher: University Press of Southern Denmark
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This study evaluates the role of legendary sagas in the lives of Icelanders from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It looks at the legendary sagas from the perspective of fictional prose narrative, and sheds light on the origin and nature of other genres that arose in Iceland, especially the Icelandic family saga Islendingasaga. The author wishes to point out the richness and complexity of these long-neglected sagas. Even though they were probably composed for amusement and recreation, they deserve to be taken seriously as works of the intellect.
Sturlunga Saga: The saga of Hvamm-Sturla; and, The saga of the Icelanders [by Sturla Þórðarson
Author: A History of Icelandic Literature
Author: Daisy L. NeijmannPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803233469
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
As complete a history as possible of the literature of Iceland.